Biography of Juan of Austria:



He was born on February 24, 1545 in Regensburg in the Duchy of Bavaria, Germany 's high .
Bastard son of the Emperor Charles V , was educated at court. His mother was a young member of the fledgling German bourgeoisie named Barbara Blomberg . Carlos V ordered him to withdraw the child and she was married to a commissioner of the emperor, Pyramo Kegell , by whom he had two children. After his widow, his son John will convince her to move to Spain , where she was granted a pension for which he lived until his death.
His brother Philip II recognized him as brother and gave him all the honors of his rank . After demonstrating its military capacity , in 1569 he took over the stumble that suppressed the Moorish uprising in the Alpujarras . Popular and praised by his troops man above him fell hereinafter the toughest military companies of the Spanish Empire .
In 1571 he obtained the victory of Lepanto against the Ottomans in 1573 took Tunisia. Juan of Austria warring spent his last days in the Netherlands, where he died on October 1, 1578 in Bouges , near Namur, Belgium today .